Fitness guru wants online bullies 'arrested'

A Gold Coast fitness guru says online bullies should be "arrested" and "put in jail" if their comments contribute to victims taking their own lives.

Ashy Bines, 25, runs a booming health and wellbeing empire which owes most of its success to Facebook.

Bines, whose comments come on the back of media personality Charlotte Dawson's suicide, said she too had been targeted by online trolls.

"“Last year, when (Dawson) attempted suicide, she said there had been one particular comment that had tipped her over the edge — ‘do yourself a favour and put your head in a blender’,” Bines told The Daily Telegraph.

“That same week, I got exactly the same comment - it was from a man with a 14-year-old daughter. I deleted and blocked it.

“I’ve had plenty of death threats, there were people telling me they knew where I lived, that I shouldn’t go out shopping, that they were watching me.”

Ms Bines has since called on her Facebook fans to sign the online petition, 'Charlotte's Law - Tougher Cyber Bullying Legislation,’ launched by Dawson’s friend Em Mastronardi on Change.org.